Cross dressing has been a tradition in theater for a very long time now and is still used very frequently today. An enormous amount of theaters in our culture now use cross dressing to enhance and exert dramatic and comic effects, whereas in older theater they did not have a choice because in some countries women were not allowed to join acting companies. The fact that times have changed, and women are allowed to participate in theater yet we still frequent this strategy raises an interesting question. Is this strategy an evolution striving towards greater acceptance and understanding of all, or just, in some way, a deeply ingrained human impulse?
